1.THE VELDT: The story is brilliant while rather scary in the end. It mainly described the conflicts between parents and children due to a nursery room that can displlay your thoughts. I think such room can be utilized to form an interactive artifact that can displays realistic virtual scenery and let people experience worldwide historic interests. The idea of immersive experience has been developed in the recent years. In Shanghai, there’s a mesuem called “teamLab Borderless Shanghai” that focused it. Built with various screens that shows 3D animations and artworks, it guide visitors into a imaginative world. I believe modern technology can achieve this work, but not as vivid as the room in the story. However, the risks of the immersive rooms are that, though we intended to help people experience sceneries, they could be addicted to it while neglecting where they truly live —— the reality, just like the children in the story who ended up killing there parents because they turned off the whole house.
2.“The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”：The story reflects on a city called Omelas where the citizens lock a child alone in a room to keep themselves happy. I here have an idea of building a robot to sensor one’s level of happiness and call for medical help when people are unhappy. The only pity is that current technology may not be able to detect correctly how human feels. How can robot know how we feel when we ourselves can even tell our feelings sometimes? Besides, I also concerns that the robot goes wrong and sending normal people to hospitals. All in all, that is just one imagination.
3.THE PLAGUE: The Plague is a moving and thoughtful story focusing on life and death. The status of the two protagonists eventually cross through thousands of years to the bright future, though people at that time will never figure out the true story. My idea is a special wearable skin that can pertrified when activated. This interactive art is meant to let people feel another way of living, so that they can thought for other species or even stones, because we don’t know a stone is alive or not. The problem is that we need to find a material that can transform into both soft and hard states. Otherwise, we can only put human into a mould, which would be cruel. In the worst case, this may evolve into an Instruments of torture.